$225-Million Earmarked to Train Health-Care Workers at Community Colleges

More than $225-million in U.S. Department of Labor grant awards are being earmarked to train 15,000 people for careers in health care, information technology, and other fast-growing fields, according to a joint announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Labor Department. The training will be offered at community colleges and other local education providers. The money is part of $1-billion in federal stimulus money being doled out to help make health information technology available to more than 100,000 health-care providers by 2014 and to support job training.